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Welcome to Living the Good Life, a blog that is not dedicated to any one thing in particular just to our life here in New Zealand.
We immigrated to New Zealand from the UK in April 2004, knowing that there was more to life that the usual rat race we came here to find a better lifestyle, and find it we did. Since coming here we've settled into a pace of life that we never take for granted, made friends that with open hearts and arms made the whole transition so much easier. We live on an 8 acre lifestyle block with our Boer goats, Dexter cattle and chooks. We share our home with our dogs Bonnie(RIP), Clyde(RIP) and Max and the cats Tiger, Squidge(RIP) and Jinx. Our son Michael no longer lives at home but he has embraced the Kiwi lifestyle, playing rugby and generally being a good kiwi bloke. There's a little bit of self sufficiency going on here but not so much it rules our lives. Just enough to keep us fed and happy, enough of a lifestyle to make us feel good, in fact you could say we are Living the Good Life.
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Thursday, July 08, 2010

This is the hallway, the next phase of the renovations, well it's pretty much just painting really....we're having a couple of weeks off then work will resume. But I'm not here to talk about that, I'm here to show you our loft/attic.In the hallway are a set of stairs, I don't like these stairs. It's because they are open and I hate walking up any kind of steps I can see through. The carpet fitter didn't particularly like them either, I think he is really looking forward to doing those when he comes back to finish the carpets! They have to stay like this as Joe isn't prepared to do anything about it...the rat!The loft area is pretty huge and up until now it's been a bit of a dumping ground. Joe however has spent the last two evenings clearing everything out, including some of the really grotty old insulation complete with cat poo! (Lazy, smelly dirty, sneaky bloody cats!) He's cleared it because tomorrow, Friday, we were having the whole loft re-insulated. The NZ government has a grant thingie available which gives you up to 33% discount when you insulate your home. This discount pretty much covers the cost of having a recognised complany to fit it for you.

Once through the door and to the right is this space, facing east-ishthis area is above the new office

This space is above the lounge area

This above Michaels room

The view

Turn left and you have this spacewhich is above the small bedroom.

Above the spare bedroom

Above the TV room

The view, you can just make the rental house in the distance

One day we will line these areas and make better use of them, Michael is keen to move up there, I'm keen to make it my 'Studio!' :D

It is lovely and clear, looks great doesn't it, but I bet ya wanna know where all the stuff went? Well I'll show you.......I feel a declutter coming on.....cos it ain't going back in the loft!!

2 comments:

Llove that word, I have a friend on msn and we often mistype, we reckon we could start a whole new dictionary of an alternative language! Your word is truly worthy of a mention!! hahaha The guys have just turned up! Good job I was up! It's 7.50am!!!

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